Two Dennis Darts on two number 13s

 Here are two Dennis Dart buses, both with Paxton Pointer bodies and both on two services numbered 13, in completely different places.

The first picture shows Paul S. Winson Coaches' 113 (XX56 PSW) on the route 13 between Loughborough town centre and Charnwood Water, in  2014. This was new in October 2006 to SM Coaches, Harlow, as MX56 HYB, before being sold to Alliance & Leicester, and eventually winding up in the Winsons fleet by 2010. By 2016, it had been sold to Astons, Worcestershire, reverting to its original registration, before being sold to Farleigh Coaches, Kent, around 2019, where it remains in service.

The other photo was taken at Southampton railway station in  2014. I was waiting for a bus to take me to the pier to catch a ferry to the Isle of Wight when First Solent's 42524 (R424 WPX) turned up at the station on a service 13 to Harefield. I presume, given its age, it later ended up in a scrapyard somewhere.







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